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	<title>Jim Patrick's Shenandoah</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>O&#8217;Donnell is Correct, and the Media Dissembles</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=951</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dissembles - it&#8217;s a fancy word for lying.
The airwaves and internet are abuzz about a supposed error by Delaware&#8217;s &#8216;Tea Party candidate&#8217; for Senate, Christine O’Donnell.  But any time the top media chains make claims about someone else&#8217;s stupidity, be suspicious.  It&#8217;s not that there aren&#8217;t competent reporters; there certainly are, but none [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over-reactions to Immigrants</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=115</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To the culprits: Please take no offense, we have all done stupid things.  Better to have this remembered humorously than as meanness and intolerance.
Preface
The following is &#8216;based on a true story&#8217;, but like television docudrama, I&#8217;ve made stuff up .  filled in the gaps.  Like they do on the teevee, names have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s My Country?</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=907</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mining has always been dangerous.  Contrary to many people&#8217;s beliefs, the earth is not a chunk of inert, passive dirt.  The earth moves; it heaves and shifts, liquids and gases move through it.  Seldom does it shake enough for humans to notice, it usually takes instruments to track the changes.  But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Taliban is winning in Winchester, Virginia</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=887</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of terrorism’s goals is to change the way people operate by making the public fear common, everyday things.  But who ever dreamed they would make the police scared of eggs?
Police shut down Winchester’s downtown mall for almost two hours in order to summon bomb experts when an egg was found ‘with a threatening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assumptions, assumptions and more assumptions</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=878</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 1990 study of winter births claimed compulsory school laws improved test scores, increased later earnings, improved health and lengthened life.  It was nonsense, based on assumptions that weren’t true and never investigated.
Children born in the winter months already have a few strikes against them. Study after study has shown that they test poorly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trickle Down ‘Waternomics’</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=864</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=864#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unpolluted pure water costs money.  In this case, the costs of Washington DC’s water are being shifted from District residents onto Virginians in the Shenandoah Valley.  Yet the District water authority is failing to act responsibly, wasting the water through disrepair and negligence of the infrastructure.]]></description>
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		<title>Give us this day . . .</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=848</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Borlaug, food crop agronomist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and father of the ‘Green Revolution’, has died. Borlaug’s legacy includes billions of lives saved from starvation.  His remarkable efforts fed millions of less fortunate worldwide and continue to inspire everyone concerned with hunger and malnutrition. ]]></description>
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		<title>BrownBailout.com and Conservatives for Rent</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=825</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story is heating up about the American Conservative Union (ACU) switching course in a dispute between FedEx and UPS . . . after FedEx declined an offer to &#8216;donate&#8217; $2 or $3 million to the ACU in order to launch a grassroots campaign.  
At the heart is a lobbying effort by UPS to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Do as I say, not as &#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=806</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=806#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting juxtaposition; while the President of the United States lectures Africans on what makes good government, the leader of his own political party closes public restrooms for &#8216;not enough tax&#8217; . . . while ]]></description>
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		<title>Politicizing the Court</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=781</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=781#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sotomayor nomination process shows the politicing effect on our nomination process.]]></description>
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		<title>McNamara - a reason we lost Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=762</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=762#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the former Secretary of Defense died at age 93, the MSM had canned obituaries, short bios, and eulogies ready to roll.  But here are —previously unpublished— examples about who Robert S. McNamara really was and why we lost the Vietnam conflict.  For those who believe we didn&#8217;t lose, Secretary McNamara is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To my parents.  Easter 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=744</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=744#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As this Easter dawns, the sun will have first passed over American soldiers fighting terrorists in a foreign land, and over an American ship held by pirates.  These are the same problems at America&#8217;s founding, when a young nation first struggled to make its way in the world.

Terrorism, cultural vandalism, and resurgent piracy depend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lefty extremism in defense of restrictions</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=730</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=730#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Congresscritturs Cantor, Forbes, and Goodlatte on their votes for everyday Virginians and against letting our national forests get trashed.  Of course the leftist hypocrites presented this vote in the opposite light, it&#8217;s a hallmark of partisan politics.
The vote was over placing federal lands —large areas of national forests in Virginia— into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck on stupid, fake conservatives stick it to the people</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=720</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=720#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of right-wing blogs crowing about a &#8216;tax revolt&#8217; in Augusta County where a committee is starting recall efforts to remove five Augusta County supervisors who voted to not repeal the 2009 property reassessments.  Steve Bright, Jim Harner, and Elwood Hilderand are setting out to collect 10% of the votes cast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital sense adds up to dollars</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=716</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=716#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to save a few bucks?  A couple of posts at CatHouse Chat reminded me of how much money the Commonwealth could be —and should be— saving, and how rotten and slow Microsoft’s Vista® is.
When my old computer died, I was astonished that the new computer took four minutes to boot.  Even after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The iron trap of prejudice</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=714</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=714#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My neighbors believe some not-very-provable things.  It isn’t harmful, and none of the other neighbors publicly criticize them for it.  But some beliefs draw out meanness and spite from others.  One of those just snagged the Below The Beltway blog.
It went like this:
1) Calling himself ‘The Searcher’, Derek Chatwood of Seattle WA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squeezing more Mexicans into immigrating</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=711</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=711#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet again, we see American policies helping to raise the heat under a boiling pot.  Mexico is rife with corruption, and now violence right on the border rises to unprecedented levels.
In the current situation, a city of 1.5 million people on the US border is erupting into armed conflict.  The current staffing levels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not so intelligent transportation systems</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=707</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=707#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many people place dependence on technology.  Gadgets certainly help make our world better, but common sense sometimes get misplaced in the presence of gizmos.  In this instance, so-called intelligent signs are warning us &#8220;Caution! Zombies Ahead!&#8220;.
Yeah, in the razzle-dazzle of having programmable signs, some people forgot that anybody can program the signs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tattoos or a coathanger</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=705</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=705#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are breaking in, stealing stuff, and assaulting each other; while the Front Royal police are concentrating on charging a local man for &#8216;illegal tattooing&#8217;.  
Some weeks ago Jeffrey Gilliom plead guilty and got a 30-day suspended jail sentence and $250 fine for illegally tattooing a 16-year-old girl.  He was originally was charged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalling ignorance</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=704</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=704#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Florida, Sen. Larcenia Bullard took objection to the term &#8216;animal husbandry&#8217; in a discussion of a bill outlawing unmentionable acts with animals.
Rich&#8217;s legislation would target only those who derived or helped others derive &#8216;&#8217;sexual gratification&#8221; from an animal, specifying that conventional dog-judging contests and animal-husbandry practices are permissible.
That last provision tripped up Miami Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disappointing ignorance</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=703</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=703#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a massive turnout at the Augusta County government center, it’s easy to see the decline and fall of traditional conservatism in the Shenandoah Valley.  The throng that showed up to protest reassessments were protesting the free market, objecting to nonexistent tax increases.  [Video and live-blog can be found at the Staunton News-Leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The worship of false gods</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=684</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=684#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While researching another subject, I ran across an organization that is amazing – for its deception.  Calling itself the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) they claim to be our state’s  ‘oldest faith-based advocacy group’.  
It is a throwback to the pre-Revolutionary age when the Church of England was indistinguishable from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick, saving the world</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=701</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=701#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime around 400 AD a teenager in Britain was kidnapped by raiders and sold into slavery.  There he stayed as a shepherd, until about 6 years later he escaped and arrived back home.  Fearing other attacks and kidnapping, his father sent him to the Continent for his education, where he chose to follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Softly. Sweetly. Push them under the bus</title>
		<link>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=700</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimpatrick.us/shenandoah/present/?p=700#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia’s second-largest payday lender, Check &#8216;n Go, is evaluating its presence in the state after new laws went into effect that restricted its lending.  The self-righteous opponents of payday lending will doubtless be celebrating, ignoring the reduced options now available to Virginia citizens with poor credit.
One of Virginia&#8217;s biggest payday lenders is considering pulling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Partisan Road Funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia needs another way of directing our road maintenance.  Once again, the Governor’s appointees are making the rounds, threatening loss of services without ‘needed’ additional funds.  In this latest,
CTB member James Davis is driving the “mo money” choo-choo train.  
Again.
When first anointed in 2005, Dr. James A. Davis made the rounds of [...]]]></description>
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